Young Adults at Church: Episode 924
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
How churches are reaching 20- and 30-somethings, plus a woman’s quest to love her sisters in Christ, and tips for paying off student loans.
Featured musical artist: Mosaic MSC
Roundtable: What Does Your Church Do for Young Adults?
Does your church have a strong young adult ministry? Does it have one at all? Regardless of your specific scenario, young adults belong at church, and it’s the responsibility of church leadership plus young professionals (that’s you!) to ensure that you’re fed, included, serving, giving and committing. What does that look like? What are some creative ways to reach and enfold 20- and 30-somethings into the life of your local body of believers? Our panel of two young adult leaders and one pastor to young adults gives tips for being seen and heard and then engaging with your church community.
Culture: The Power of Women Helping Women
As a former worship leader, Natalie Runion has lots of experience with the highs and lows of Christian service and culture. But when her pastor offered her a women’s ministry role, she panicked. “I don’t even like women!” she blurted in response. Over time, God changed her heart, and she’s now seen God use her role in women’s ministry in ways she never expected. In our candid conversation, Natalie gives inspiration and advice for women to nurture and lift up other sisters in Christ — and then see what God does.
I Don’t Even Like Women: And Other Lies That Get in the Way of Sacred Sisterhood
Inbox: Strategies for Paying Off Student Loans
Many grads spend years, if not decades, paying off their student loans. Is there a way to short-circuit the process and get ahead? Financial expert Jay Blackman weighs in.
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| 0:24.1 | Visit truthrising.com today. |
| 0:26.9 | That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:30.1 | Bowenless show. This is Lisa Anderson here with you. I always like to give a little intro as to what is coming up on the show because many of you listen to it piecemeal, |
| 0:54.9 | which is totally okay. We're squarely in the middle of October at this point. And so I hope you |
| 1:00.9 | are enjoying fall. Those of you in the southern hemisphere, I can't speak for you. You are |
| 1:06.0 | enjoying your start to spring and summer. So that's all good. But so later on today, for our inbox, |
| 1:12.5 | we want to know, is there a best strategy for paying off your student loans? One of our |
| 1:17.6 | financial expert dudes is going to be here, Jay Blackman, to answer that and kind of give you |
| 1:24.1 | some insights. And then for our culture segment, Natalie Runyon is a women's |
| 1:28.8 | ministry leader. But when she was first given the opportunity to get into this, she actually said, |
| 1:35.0 | I don't think I can do this. I don't even like women. And so we're going to ask her why that is. |
| 1:40.5 | She is a woman. So why does she not like her own sex? And we'll figure out what has transpired |
| 1:46.9 | since then. And she's going to give some great insights for women and even some men on how to |
| 1:52.0 | plug into the church that you are in. Okay, here we are for our roundtable. We are going to have a |
| 1:57.3 | conversation, speaking of churches, around what does your church do for young adults? |
| 2:02.4 | This was born out of a question from one of you, our listeners. And I think it was, there was a |
| 2:08.0 | little angst around, like, I'm new to the area, I'm looking for a church or, you know, the malaise |
| 2:14.1 | around like, what does my church have for young adults? And you know that I often say here, |
| 2:19.2 | you don't go and like ask them for a menu and have them lay it out like a smorgas board that |
| 2:24.5 | you're just going to consume. So we will have some encouraging truths and possibly some hard truths for |
| 2:30.0 | you in this conversation. And to make it happen, we have Emma, Andrew, and Lee. Hey, everyone. |
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